Sheron Rupp
Sheron Rupp (b. 1943) did not seriously begin a career in photography until she received her MFA from the University of Massachusetts in 1982. Today, Rupp is best known for her color photographs of people, especially children, living in rural, small towns in America. Her photographs often include the rough and tumble of back yards and the quotidian moments in family life.
Rupp has received numerous grants, including a Guggenheim in 1990, and her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The J.Paul Getty Museum, the Nelson-Atkins Museum, The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the National Gallery of Art, The Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others.
In 2019, Taken from Memory, was published by Kehrer Verlag. This was Rupp’s first book of color photographs, which covered a period of almost thirty years of photographing the rural and small town life across the United States.
Rupp has made her home for many years in the foothills of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts.